North Mac Middle School
8th Grade American History
Instructor: Mr. Fred Mulacek
2012-13
Text
The American Journey
Glencoe McGraw-Hill 2002
ISBN 0-07-825875-8
Unit 4: The New Republic (1789 to 1825)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
August
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Precedent
1. Determine the actions taken by Washington in his first term that set a precedent for
V. President (Adams)
National Debt
future presidents.
Cabinet
Speculation
2. What was the importance of the Judiciary Act of 1789?
Secretary of State (Jefferson)
Constitutional
3. Analyze the causes, compromises, and effects of actions taken to improve the
Secretary of the Treasury (Hamilton)
Unconstitutional
economy in the Washington administration.
Secretary of War (Knox)
Compromise
Judiciary Act of 1789
John Jay
Standards
14.A.3
14.B
14D
14.D.3
14.E
14.E.3
15A
National debt
15.B.3b
Washington, D.C.
15.D.3a
Pierre Charles L’enfant
Benjamin Banneker
16A
16.B.3a
16.B.3c
Rebellion
4. Assess the causes of the Whiskey rebellion and judge the precedents set by
Whisky Rebellion
16E
Neutrality
Washington’s actions for all other presidents in the future.
Jay’s Treaty
Secession of Power
5. Evaluate the positive impact of Washington’s decision to remain neutral in foreign
Proclamation of Neutrality
Public Virtue
affairs?
Washington’s Farewell Address
17.A.3b
Political Factions
6. Analyze the impact of the Jefferson-Hamilton debates on the decisions of President
Cinncinatus
17.C.3a
Term Limits - President
Washington and the future path of the country (economics, foreign policy).
16.E.3a
17A
17D
7. Analyze the advice given to the nation by Washington in his farewell address
17.D.3a
(morality, neutrality, and avoidance of political factions as necessary to the
survival of the republic) then infer the precedent set by his departure.
Political Parties
8. Contrast the Federalists and Democrat-Republican ideologies regarding the role of
Federalist
Partisanship
the central government, the economy, and foreign policy.
Democrat-Republican
Implied Powers
9. Evaluate President Adams’ foreign policy with France and its effects on national
John Adams
Enumerated Powers
politics.
Alexander Hamilton
Loose Interpretation
10. Critique the Alien & Sedition Acts and judge the validity of the argument made by
Thomas Jefferson
Strict Interpretation
the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.
French Revolution
Foreign Affairs
XYZ Affair
Nullify
Quasi War (vs France)
States Rights
Alien & Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions
Unit 5: The Growing Nation (1820-1860)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
August/Sept
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Deadlock
1. Investigate the presidential politics of the Election of 1800, from the views of each
John Adams
14C
Laissez-faire
candidate to the breaking of the deadlock in the election.
Thomas Jefferson
14E
Judicial Review
2. Examine the precedents set under the Marshall court.
Election of 1800
14.E.3
Standards
Laissez-faire
14F
Judiciary Act of 1789
15A
Judiciary Act of 1801
15.A.3a
Supreme Court
15B
John Marshall
15C
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
15.C.3
15D
Gibbons v. Ogden
15.D.3c
16A
15E
Western Expansion
3. Explain the events related to the Louisiana Purchase and judge the importance of
Western Territory
Secede
purchase to the future of the United States.
Napoleon Bonaparte
4. Determine the political consequences of the Louisiana Purchase, from its impact on
Louisiana Purchase
the two party system to the conflict for Jefferson regarding his own political ideology.
Pike’s Expedition
5. Describe the Lewis & Clark expedition and evaluate the importance of information
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
gathered by the expedition.
Conestoga Wagon
16.E.3b
Sacagawea, York
16.E.3c
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
16.A.3b
16C
16.C.3b
16E
17A
17.A.3b
17.C.3a
Impressment
6. Trace the events that led the United States to war with Great Britain in 1812.
Embargo Act
17.C.3c
Neutral Rights
7. Determine the significance of the battle for Baltimore.
Non-intercourse Act
17.D.3a
War Hawk
8. Analyze the lyrics to the “Star Spangled Banner” and its future adoption as the U.S.
James Madison
17.D.3b
National Anthem
national anthem.
Frigate , Privateer
18.A.3
Patriotism
9. What was accomplished by the United States by fighting the War of 1812, both
Oliver Hazard Perry
Nationalism
directly as a result of the Treaty of Ghent and indirectly in our future foreign policy?
Attack on Washington, D.C.
18.B.3a
10. Analyze the effect of the War of 1812 on national politics.
Fort McHenry
18.B.3b
Francis Scott Key
18B
18C
“Star Spangled Banner”
18.C.3a
Andrew Jackson
18.C.3b
Treaty of Ghent
Uncle Sam
Democrat-Republicans
Federalists
Hartford Convention
Republicans
Industrial
11. Explain how the industrial revolution began in the United States?
Samuel Slater
Revolution
12. Explain how did the cotton gin affected cotton production and the economies of
Textiles
Capitalism
both the northern and the southern regions of the United States?
The Lowell Girls
Westward
13. Evaluate the effects of westward expansion on improvements in technology in the
Eli Whitney
Expansion
United States.
Patent
Interchangeable parts
Census
Turnpikes
Canal locks
Robert Fulton
Internal Improvements
Unity
14. Analyze the factors that created an “Era of Good Feelings.”
James Monroe
Sectionalism
15. Diagnose the factors that created sectional differences in the 1820s.
Missouri Compromise
State Sovereignty
16. Explain the Missouri Compromise and support or defend the compromise as a long
Tariff of 1816
Compromise
term solution for keeping domestic tranquility and unity in the United States.
Daniel Webster
American System
17. Evaluate the judicial precedents that united the nation by the McCulloch v.
Henry Clay
Disarmament
Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden decisions.
John Marshall
Demilitarization
McCulloch v. Maryland
Treaty
Gibbons v. Ogden
John Quincy Adams
Disarmament
18. Trace the causes and course of events of the 1st Seminole War and the role of Andrew
Eastern Florida, Western Florida
Demilitarization
Jackson (including the call for his court-martial).
General Andrew Jackson
Joint Occupation
19. Compare the progress made in foreign affairs during the “Era of Good Feelings” with
1st Seminole War
Treaty
Great Britain and Spain, explaining how the United States became more secure as a
Micanopy
Annexation
nation.
Oregon Country
Treaty
20. What areas did the United States obtain from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Adams-Onis Treaty
U.S. Territory
21. Explain the Monroe Doctrine foreign policy and predict the effect the new policy
Temporary & Territorial Governors
Doctrine
would have on the future role of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
William P. Duval
John Quincy Adams
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Convention Of 1818
Monroe Doctrine
Favorite Son
22. Compare and contrast the 1824 presidential candidates Jackson and Adams both in
Andrew Jackson
Majority
their political views and their supporters.
John Quincy Adams
Plurality
23. Assess the function of the 12th Amendment relative to the events of the 1824
Henry Clay
State’s Rights
presidential election.
12th Amendment
Mudslinging
24. Justify or criticize Jackson’s claim of a “corrupt bargain” when speaking of the
“Corrupt Bargain”
Landslide
Adam’s presidency?
Democrat-Republicans
Suffrage
25. Compare and contrast the 1828 presidential candidates Jackson and Adams both in
National Republicans
Caucus
their political beliefs and the tactics used by each to win the election.
National Party Convention
Nominating
26. Summarize democratic participation increased during the Age of Jackson and analyze
Convention
the extent to which Jackson was responsible for this increase.
Bureaucracy
27. In the spirit of democracy, evaluate the ways Jackson set new precedents for the
Spoils System
executive branch in dealing with corruption and bureaucracy.
Tarrif
28. What ways did the new tariff of 1828 divide the nation by region?
Webster-Hayne Debate
Nullify
29. Assess the actions of Andrew Jackson in handling the nullification crisis over tariffs.
John C. Calhoun
Secede
How did the crisis foreshadow a future civil war?
Nullification Crisis/ Act
Relocation
30. After analyzing the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v Georgia, evaluate Andrew
Force Bill
Reservation
Jackson’s response to the ruling.
5 Civilized Tribes
Guerilla Tactics
31. Compare the response to the Indian Removal Act by the Florida Seminoles and the
Indian Removal Act
Indian Territories
Cherokees. Were there other native groups who acted similarly to the Seminoles?
Cherokee Nation
Charter
32. Identify the location of the Indian Territories of Oklahoma and Florida, and the
Worchester v. Georgia
Deposits
corresponding forced migration routes.
Trail Of Tears
Laissez-Faire
33. Explain why Andrew Jackson was against a National Bank and the Maysville Road
Chief Black Hawk
Depression/Panic
Bill and how he succeeded in defeating his opponents (e.g. ending the bank’s charter)?
Seminole Indians
34. In what ways would the actions of Jackson ending the National Bank prove
Chief Osceola, Chief Micanopy
problematic for the next president?
2nd Seminole War
McCullough v. Maryland
National Bank, State Banks
Maysville Road Bill
Martin Van Buren
Panic Of 1837
Manifest Destiny
35. Evaluate John Quincy Adams’s statement that American expansion to the
John Quincy Adams
Migration
Pacific was a “law of nature,” and the origins and meaning of the term Manifest
John O’ Sullivan
Joint Occupation
Destiny.
Oregon Country
Annexation
36. How did Manifest Destiny help Americans justify their desire to extend the
Mountain Man
U.S. to the Pacific?
Rendezvous
37. Trace the life of the first Americans to reach the Oregon Country, from the
South Pass
reasons for migration to their impact on future settlement.
Whitman Mission
38. Evaluate the phrase “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” and its impact on both
Emigrant
domestic and foreign affairs.
Oregon Trail
Prairie Schooner
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”
Treaty
39. Describe the Adams-Onis Treaty and its impact over the region of Texas.
Adam’s Onis Treaty
Decree
40. Trace the problems that arose between the U.S. settlers and Mexico in Texas,
Davey Crockett
Reconciliation
from the causes that changed the population in the region to the actions of
Tejanos
Annex
Mexico that would lead U.S. settlers to armed conflict.
Empresarios
41. Describe the events of the Alamo and explain how the fall of the Alamo
Stephen F. Austin
helped the cause of Texas Independence even though it was a defeat for the
General Santa Anna
Texans.
San Antonio
42. Analyze the causes of the United States failure to annex Texas, and
The Alamo
subsequent meaning of the name ‘Lone Star Republic’.
Sam Houston
Andrew Jackson
Lone Star Republic
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Cede/ Cession
43. Illustrate the causes of U.S. settlement in the Southwest and California from
New Mexico
1820-1845, as well as the conflicts with Mexico caused by settlement.
Santa Fe Trail
44. Describe the causes and effects of the United States’ war with Mexico.
John C. Freemont
45. Trace the events of the Mexican-American War and illustrate the territory
Ranchos, Rancheros
gained by the United States.
General Zachary Taylor
Bear Flag Republic
Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gadsden Purchase
Gold Rush/Gold Fever
46. Illustrate how the hope of getting rich drew thousands of people to settle in
Nat Love
Migration
California after the Mexican American War and the types of towns the settlers
Forty-Niners
created.
Boomtown
47. Explain how the search for religious freedom led to the settlement of Utah
Vigilantes
and the reasons for successful settlement in the desert.
President Zachary Taylor
Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis
Mormons, Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Unit 5 (Cont.)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
October
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Industrialization
1. Illustrate how the advances in technology, transportation, and communication
Clipper Ship
14C
Invention
shaped the economy of the north.
Robert Fulton
14E
Strike
2. Describe how the working conditions changed in the north over the first half of
Lowell Girls
14.E.3
Immigration
the 19th century.
Telegraph
14F
Nativism
3. Describe the treatment of men and women, immigrants and African Americans
Morse code
15A
Famine
in Northern factories.
Trade Union
15.A.3a
Prejudice
4. Evaluate the changes in immigration patterns of the north during
Nativist
15B
Discrimination
industrialization and its impact the cultural and political life in the North?
“Real” American
15C
American (Know-Nothing) Party
Standards
15.C.3
15D
Settlement
5. Describe the changes in settlement in the South caused by growth.
Upper South
15.D.3c
Export
6. After describing the invention of the cotton gin and analyze its effect on the
Deep South
15E
Economic Growth
South’s economy.
Eli Whitney
16A
Capital
7. Compare and contrast industrialization in the North and South, identifying the
Cotton Gin
16.A.3b
Tennant Farming
barriers that inhibited the South from industrializing like the North.
Yeoman
Plantation Farming
8. Categorize the different classes of people that made up the South’s culture.
Tennant Farmer
Slave Codes
9. Investigate life on a plantation farm, from the economic goals of the business
Overseer
operation, to daily life for the owners, workers, and slaves.
Black Church, Spirituals
16.E.3b
10. Despite their life under slavery, how did African Americans slaves maintain
Nat Turner (rebellion)
16.E.3c
strong family and cultural ties with one another?
Underground Railroad
11. Contrast the developing resistance to slavery that was developed in the South
Harriet Tubman
17.A.3b
16C
16.C.3b
16E
17A
and southern reaction (slave codes).
Frederick Douglass
17.C.3a
Religious Revival
12. Examine how religious ideas inspired various social reform movements during
2nd Great Awakening
17.C.3c
Reform
the early 1800s?
Charles Finney, Lyman Beecher
17.D.3a
Temperance
13. Analyze the impact of the following reform movements on American society in
Temperance Movement, Frances Willard
17.D.3b
‘Public’ School
the 19th century: temperance, abolition, women’s rights, education, and the
William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator
18.A.3
Abolition
movement to help the mentally ill and handicapped.
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth
18B
Suffrage
14. How did the American spirit of reform influence transcendentalists?
Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad
18.B.3a
Equality
15. Account for the fact that women initiated and made up a majority of the numbers
American Colonization Society
18.B.3b
Transcendentalism
of social reformers?
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Civil Disobedience
18C
Seneca Fall Convention
18.C.3a
Horace Mann, Normal School
18.C.3b
Dorothea Dix, Samuel Gridley Howe
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Susan B. Anthony, Grimke Sisters
Unit 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
October
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Sectionalism
1. Evaluate how the North and the South compare in terms of population, economy, and resources
Missouri Compromise
14.C.3
Secede
and predict how these factors could help cause a future Civil War.
Free Soil Party
14.D.3
2. Trace the changes in the debate over slavery and admission of new states, from the Missouri
California, New Mexico Territory
15B
Compromise to the Compromise of 1850 (and the significance of the Fugitive Slave Act).
Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun
17A
3. Explaining the events that led to civil conflict in Kansas and determine if the concept of ‘popular
Wilmot Proviso
17.A.3b
sovereignty’ outlined by Congress in the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the cause of ‘Bleeding Kansas”
Zachary Taylor
17.C.3a
and later violence in the Senate.
Daniel Webster
17D
Millard Fillmore
18.A.3
Stephen Douglass
18.B.3a
Compromise of 1850
18.C.3a
Slave Code, Fugitive Slave Act
18.C.3b
Border Ruffians
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown, Bleeding Kansas
State’s Rights
4. How did writings such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin affect the conflict over slavery in national politics?
Republican Party
Popular Sovereignty
5. Why was the Republican Party formed and what did the presidential election of 1856 reveal
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unconstitutional
regarding sectionalism in the nation?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Martyr
6. Review the facts of the Dred Scott case, analyze the written decision by Roger Taney and
Dred Scott, Roger B. Taney
determine its impact on creating conflict in the nation.
Abraham Lincoln
7. In what ways did the Lincoln Douglass Debates of 1858 and John Brown’s raid at Harper’s
Stephen Douglas
Ferry motivate proslavery southerners and also antislavery southerners, subsequently
Freeport Doctrine
making a national compromise less likely?
John Brown
Arsenal, Harper’s Ferry
Majority
8. Explain the way in which the Election of 1860 clearly divided the nation along sectional lines, both
Abraham Lincoln
Electoral Map
the electoral results and the immediate response in the South.
Election of 1860
State’s Rights
9. Trace the events of secession and explain the Confederate States’ justification for breaking from the
Secede
Secession
Union; how effective were Buchanan’s and Lincoln’s immediate responses in trying to keep the
Fort Sumter
Border State
nation together?
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
10. Sequence the events of the attack at Fort Sumter and explain Lincoln’s subsequent response/actions
Confederate States of America
War Between the States
to the attack.
Jefferson Davis
Offensive
11. Explain the importance of the Border States and how they impacted Lincoln’s decisions.
Rebel
Blockade
12. Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the North and South going into the Civil
Yankee
War (people, industry, resources, terrain)
13. What were the war aims and strategies of the Union and the Confederacy entering the war?
Standards
Unit 6: The Civil War and Reconstruction (Cont.)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
November
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Civil War
1. Describe the average age and background of soldiers fighting in the Civil War.
Rebels, Yankees
14.C.3
Volunteer
2. How did the lives of civilians change because of the war?
Spies
14.D.3
Draft
3. Describe the medical treatment provided to soldiers during the Civil War.
American Red Cross
Habeas
4. Describe the role of women and African Americans during the Civil War.
Clara Barton, Rose Greenhow
Corpus
5. How did the war affect the economies of the North and the South?
Belle Boyd, Dorothea Dix
17.A.3b
Blockade
Sally Tompkins
17.C.3a
Inflation
Contrabands
54th Massachusetts
Standards
15B
17A
17D
18.A.3
18.B.3a
Victory
6. Trace the successes and failures of the North and the South during the early years of the
1st Battle Of Bull Run
18.C.3a
Defeat
war, from the 1st Battle of Bull Run to the Battle of Antietam.
Gen. Robert E. Lee
18.C.3b
Casualties
7. Explain the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation and analyze what it
Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson
Blockade
accomplished.
Blockade Runners , Ironclad
Emancipate
8. Trace the tide of war turning in 1863, from the Southern victories at Fredericksburg to
Gen. George B. McClellan
the Union victory at Gettysburg.
Army Of The Potomac
9. Analyze Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and its future impact.
Monitor Vs. Merrimack
10. Why was the Victory at Vicksburg so important to the Union?
Battle Of Shiloh, Battle Of Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle Of Gettysburg
Gen. George Pickett Gen. George
Meade
Gettysburg Address
General Ulysses S. Grant
Total War
11. Trace Sherman’s March to the Sea; analyze how it was an example of ‘total war’ and
Gen. Tecumseh Sherman
how it contributed to the defeat of the Confederacy.
Sherman’s March To The Sea
12. What were the “costs of war” (human and economic)?
Appomattox Court House
Radical
13. Compare and Contrast Abraham Lincoln’s 10% Plan with the Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill
Reconstruction
Plan for Reconstruction.
Freedmen’s Bureau
14. Describe the events surrounding Lincoln’s assassination and how his assassination
Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth
affected southern reconstruction.
Amnesty
15. Evaluate Johnson’s presidency and decide if his impeachment was just.
Andrew Johnson
16. How was the southern economy affected by the war?
Restoration Plan
17. How did Florida’s Government Change during Reconstruction?
Sharecropping
Impeachment
18. Compare Abraham Lincoln’s 10% Plan with the Radical Republicans Plan for
13th, 14th , 15th Amendments
Civil Rights
Reconstruction.
Reconstruction Acts Of 1867
Segregation
19. How did some Southerners deprive freed people of their rights and how did Congress
Scalawag, Carpetbagger
Sharecropping
respond?
Black Codes
20. Describe how the Constitutional amendments of the period affected African
Freedmen’s Bureau
Americans.
Civil Rights Act Of 1866
21. How did Southern life change during Reconstruction?
Hiram Revels, Blanche Bruce
22. Explain the following quote as it applies to Reconstruction: “The slave went free; stood
Jonathan Gibbs
a brief moment in the sun, then moved back again toward slavery.”
Ku Klux Klan
23. What effect did the Compromise of 1877 have on Reconstruction?
Lynching
24. Evaluate the overall success of Reconstruction.
Poll Tax
25. Some historians refer to the Civil War as “The Second American Revolution.” Assess
Literacy Test
the validity of this title in terms of the effects of the war on the United States (consider
Grandfather Clause
liberty, labor, federal power, and American unity).
Plessy v Ferguson
W.E.B. Dubois
Compromise of 1877
Unit 7: Reshaping the Nation (1858-1914)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Role of Government
1. What are the causes and effects of scarcity?
Teddy Roosevelt
Scandals and Corruption
2. How did the U.S. economic system respond to the 3 basic economic questions
Pullman Strike
Machine Politics
in the late 1800's?
Taft
Transportation Networks
December
W. Wilson
Mass Production
Standards
15A
15.A.3a
15C
15.E.3a
16A
Finance, Corporations
16.B.3c
Regulation of Business
16.D.3a
Urbanization
16E
Industrialization
17A
Civil rights
17.A.3b
Working conditions
17.C.3a
Attempts to form unions
17.C.3b
Government suppression
17.C.3c
Grange, Populists
17D
17.D.3a
17.D.3b
18A
18.C.3b
Unit 8: Reform, Expansion, and War (1865-1920)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Temperance
1. What specific social, economic, and political problems required reform in the late 19th century?
Muckraker
Government Reform
2. How can individuals help to bring about change in society?
NAACP
14.D.3
Progressivism
3. What is the amendment process?
LaFollette
14.E.3
Socialist Party
4. How did the federal government help the reform effort through legislation, amendments, and regulation?
Roosevelt, Taft
15.A.3b
Economic Reform
5. Do any of the problems of the Progressive Era still exist today? To what extent?
Wilson, E.V. Debs
15.A.3c
15.E.3a
th
th
January
Standards
14D
Labor legislation
6. What were the major domestic and foreign policy issues of the late 19 and early 20 centuries?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Railroad regulation
7. What factors contributed to the U.S. adoption of a policy of imperialism?
Clayton Act
Nationalism
8. How did the U.S. policy toward latin American nations change in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Direct election of Senators – 17th amendment
16.A.3b
Manifest Destiny
9. What are the costs and benefits of neutrality and of intervention?
Womens’ Suffrage – the 19th amendment
16.C.3c
16A
Scarcity
Roosevelt Corollary
Imperialism
Dollar Diplomacy
16.E.3c
16E
Spanish-Am. War
Versailles Treaty
17A
Foreign Policy
Income Tax – 16th Amend.
17.A.3b
Isolationism
Federal Reserve Act 1913
17.C.3c
Interdependence
The Panama Canal
18.A.3
Unit 9: Turbulent Decades (1919-1945)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
1. What were the economic, political, and social changes of the 1920s?
Great Depression
14.E.3
2. How was Prohibition an outgrowth the earlier temperance movement?
Prohibition
15.A.3a
3. How did the role of government change from the 1920s to the 1930s?
New Deal
15.A.3b
4. Why did the crash of the market affect those who did not own stock?
FDR
15.D.3c
Roaring 20's
5. How did the concept of checks and balances relate to the New Deal?
February
Standards
16A
6. How was New York a model for federal programs?
16.A.3b
7. What parts of the New Deal legislation are still in effect today?
16.A.3c
17.A.3b
17.C.3c
18A
18.B.3b
18.C.3a
Unit 10 Turning Points (1945-1975)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
March
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
Cold War
1.How did the Versailles Treaty lead to World War II?
Korean War
Communism
2.How could the use of the first atomic bomb be considered a turning point in United States history?
Vietnam
Civil Rights
3.Why is World War II considered a "total war" affecting all aspects of American life?
John F Kennedy
Red Scare
4. How did the Cold War affect the lives of people in the United States?
MLK
15.A.3c
5. How did the United States deal with the assassination of one president and the resignation of another?
Eisenhower
15.A.3d
Standards
14.E.3
15A
15.A.3b
6. How has the fall of communism changed the balance of power in the world?
15.B.3a
7. What will be the role of the United States in the 21st century?
15.E.3b
8. How were World War II and the Vietnam War different?
16.B.3c
9. How were the Vietnam War and the Gulf War different?
16.B.3d
10. How has our relationship with Latin America changed?
16C
16.C.3c
16.E.3b
16.E.3c
17A
17.A.3b
17B
17.B.3b
17.C.3a
17D
18.A.3
18C
Unit 11 Modern America (1968-Present)
Pacing
Assessments:
Concept Tests, Knowledge Surveys, Oral Presentations, Peer Review, Technology Projects
Concepts
Essential Questions
People, Places, Events, Terms
April/May
Cold War
1. How did the Cold War affect the lives of people in the United States?
Richard Nixon
14.C.3
Reaganomics
2. How did the United States deal with the assassination of one President and the resignation of another?
Jimmy Carter
14.e.3
3. How has the fall of communism changed the balance of power in the world?
Bill Clinton
Standards
15B
4. What will be the role of the United States in the 21st century?
15.B.3b
5. What social problems have existed for a long time in the United States, and still exist today?
15.D.3b
6. Will the United States foreign policy of the 21st century tend toward isolation or engagement in world
16.A.3c
affairs?
7. What are the effects of diversity on American society and culture?
17A
17.A.3b
17.B.3b
17.C.3b
18.B.3a
18.C.3a